[Comparison of congenital color vision deficiencies prevalence between Han and Uygur high-school students].

Objective: A population-based study was conducted to compare the prevalence of congenital color vision deficiencies (CVD) in high-school students of Uygur and Han nationalities in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Methods: Students from 7 high schools were examined with pseudoisochromatic color plates and further with Farnsworth Munsell 100 test. The chi-square test was applied to compare categorical variables, and the independent-samples t test was used to compare the measure data.